GRAND HAVEN, MI -- Two people convicted in an Easter hit-and-run crash that killed a 24-year-old pedestrian have been sentenced to six months in jail.

Jeremie Collins, 26, and Maly Phongsavanh, 22, were sentenced Monday, Sept. 23 in Ottawa County Circuit Court to the jail term and three years of probation.

Police said the two were driving separate vehicles on Ottawa Beach Road in the early morning hours of Easter Sunday when both vehicles hit Joshua Kyle Owens, 24 as he crossed the road near 152nd Avenue.

They left the scene, but were found by police the next day at a home on Lake Breeze Drive. Both vehicles showed damage.

Collins and Phongsavanh both earlier pleaded no contest to failing to stop at the scene of an accident causing death.

In court today, Collins apologized and said he would "strive to be a better person."

His attorney, Michael Boyle, said the circumstances of the accident made for "an extremely difficult case."

"There are three families in the courtroom that have been devastated by the events that took place," he said.

Boyle said Collins has made efforts to change his life in the last six months.